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To: Alex Weeks <Alex_Weeks@capitalland.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange (automated) HTTP access from FreeBSD 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Oct 1997 11:13:43 CDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:00:57 -0700
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>The problem:  The http logs for the Web page and the logs for the banner 
>advertising software show hits (lot of them) from our FreeBSD router/DNS 
>machine.  Obviously the traffic headed to this NT server travels through 
>the FreeBSD box, but why does the traffic appear to originate from the 
>FreeBSD box?  (If that's what is happening. Read further).

   Unless you are doing some sort of NAT (Network Address Translation) on the
FreeBSD machine, then the http requests are coming from an application on
on the FreeBSD machine - a web browser or perhaps a web proxy server.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project